In a matter of hours on Jan. 27, a chaotic fire, which started at Jadwiga’s Polish American Deli on West Lincoln Avenue, swept through the heart of the village’s business district, …
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By Juan Lasso and Angelina Zingariell
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3/1/24
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In the early-morning hours of Jan. 27, a fire, which originated at the Jadwiga’s Polish American Deli on West Lincoln Avenue, ravaged a row of neighboring businesses on Rockaway Avenue.
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By Juan Lasso
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2/16/24
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The long-awaited and long-promised onsite emergency food pantry facility, run by the Freeport-based regional food bank, Long Island Cares, may finally be up and running by this spring.
While the …
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By Juan Lasso
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12/1/23
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In a downtown business district dense with nail spas, barbershops, delis, and restaurants, a supermarket trumpeted its grand reopening on Rockaway Avenue. It’s called CTown, part of the New …
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By Juan Lasso
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4/23/23
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On a warm, sunlit evening last week, a seemingly endless line of cars flowed through the stretch of downtown businesses between East Merrick Road and Sunrise Highway known as Rockaway Avenue. …
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By Juan Lasso
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4/2/23
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A retail storefront along Rockaway Avenue in Valley Stream sits empty for now, but come November, the building will once again open its doors within the village’s business district. But not as …
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By Juan Lasso
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8/25/22
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On a warm and breezy Friday evening, Valley Stream residents strolled down Rockaway Avenue with their families to check out the line-up of vintage cars straight from the 1930s through the early …
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By Lilly Mullaney
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6/23/22
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In his free time, Mike Stanko likes to paint Valley Stream scenes. So when Rochester-based CGI Communications reached out to Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce members and village employees about refreshing the banners on Rockaway Avenue, they agreed that any new banner should feature Stanko’s work.
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By Melissa Koenig
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5/30/19
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Members of Valley Stream’s Downtown Revitalization Task Force gathered at the village courthouse on Jan. 29 to hear from three Nassau County mayors how they improved their downtowns, the …
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By Peter Belfiore
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2/7/19
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Standing three stories tall on the main stretch of Rockaway Avenue in Valley Stream, the gray, neoclassical façade of what is now the Chase Bank in Valley Stream has been a village fixture for 90 …
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By Peter Belfiore
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10/30/18
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